As numerous people, I bought an HP (printer-scanner-copier) color printer for my Mac.
First and upmost. This is a great little piece of equipment like most HP products. Color prints are speckless, scanning and coping simple.
However, there are drawbacks, I believe mainly due to a 1-to-1 porting of the PC drivers/utilities to the Apple world.
1. The print driver, never remembers settings for the printer (such as paper type, print quality, etc.) even if these settings have been specifically saved.
2. The scanner actually does what it wants. I mean what it wants. Do not expect it to carry out the settings you define. The scanner utility is more than bugged. It is just not programmed correctly. Will slowly drive you crazy.
3. The copier function works if you rely on the buttons (ie. copy) on the printer. However, do not attempt to set any of its parameters with the HP utility. They will not set.
4. The print driver hangs, or uses a new verson of snail-print I've never seen before. Normally a halt job-start job clears 'something'.
5. The install for the HP utilities costs 400Mb of disk space. That is because HP have kindly provided IRIS OCR, and other tools. A 'Custom' install would have been welcome. The install also does various updates to your desktop-dock and startup prefs without warning.
I must conclude that if the printer is excellent, the software provided to drive this hardware is well below my expectations.
First and upmost. This is a great little piece of equipment like most HP products. Color prints are speckless, scanning and coping simple.
However, there are drawbacks, I believe mainly due to a 1-to-1 porting of the PC drivers/utilities to the Apple world.
1. The print driver, never remembers settings for the printer (such as paper type, print quality, etc.) even if these settings have been specifically saved.
2. The scanner actually does what it wants. I mean what it wants. Do not expect it to carry out the settings you define. The scanner utility is more than bugged. It is just not programmed correctly. Will slowly drive you crazy.
3. The copier function works if you rely on the buttons (ie. copy) on the printer. However, do not attempt to set any of its parameters with the HP utility. They will not set.
4. The print driver hangs, or uses a new verson of snail-print I've never seen before. Normally a halt job-start job clears 'something'.
5. The install for the HP utilities costs 400Mb of disk space. That is because HP have kindly provided IRIS OCR, and other tools. A 'Custom' install would have been welcome. The install also does various updates to your desktop-dock and startup prefs without warning.
I must conclude that if the printer is excellent, the software provided to drive this hardware is well below my expectations.
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The latest Max OS X update (10.15 Catalina) only supports 64-bit apps. When will HP update the drivers and/or Print Utility to be 64-bit is that I may use my printer again? How can I trust that any future HP product I purchase will be compatible with 'modern' operating systems? Brother DCP-145C. Brother DCP-1510 series. This download includes the HP Photosmart driver, HP Printer Utility, and HP Photosmart Studio imaging software for Mac OS X v10.3.9, v10.4 and v10.5.
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Hi,
I am running Leopard and I have set up a network connection between my windows (which has the printer connected) and my mac for a shared printer. I can print to it fine, but the quality is messed because it is obviously using the wrong driver. So I searched the list of drivers included for the one I needed- HP Photosmart 7850, but I couldn't find it. After a quick look at apple's website, it had it listed and said I could install it using the optional installations on the Leopard install disk. So I inserted it, went into Optional Installs, then found the printer drivers section and I chose the HP drivers to install. I installed, then restarted, but the drivers list remains untouched...
Any help?
P.s. I have checked the HP product page but for 10.5 it claims 'Included with Leopard' or something with the sort.
I am running Leopard and I have set up a network connection between my windows (which has the printer connected) and my mac for a shared printer. I can print to it fine, but the quality is messed because it is obviously using the wrong driver. So I searched the list of drivers included for the one I needed- HP Photosmart 7850, but I couldn't find it. After a quick look at apple's website, it had it listed and said I could install it using the optional installations on the Leopard install disk. So I inserted it, went into Optional Installs, then found the printer drivers section and I chose the HP drivers to install. I installed, then restarted, but the drivers list remains untouched...
Any help?
P.s. I have checked the HP product page but for 10.5 it claims 'Included with Leopard' or something with the sort.